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Comment Re:Damn, where's my Windows 12? (Score 1) 27

Wait, do I need to trash my 13600k and build a new system with an Intel Core Ultra for it to be compatible?

Yes, and make sure you spend a shitload of money on it too. That way when Microsoft does this again in a few years you'll get to experience that same sweet regret all over again.

Comment Re: Stupidity snowballs (Score 2) 107

> There is no exception here. Teachers are to teach what is in the published curriculum

If the curriculum limits answers to certain questions for religious reasons than it's in violation of the separation clause.

> It can be a matter of health,

I'm sure the evil GOP will try to twist their argument into being about health or the like, but underlying it's religion trying to camouflage itself, like how Intelligent Design tried to disguise creationism as science. It's bearing False Witness and thus should be punished via an elevator to Hell. Jesus can read GOP's evil minds.

Comment Re:So... when? (Score 1) 22

So when can we expect this violent eruption/explosion? 10 years? 10,000 years?

I'm a busy man. I don't have millennia to waste on this.

Excellent thought; could happen anytime, even tomorrow. Something people often, annoyingly, forget, like in this bit from The Fifth Element:

Billy [Luke Perry]: When is this "snake" act supposed to occur?
Professor Pacoli: Well, if this is the five and this is the one... [counting under his breath] Every 5,000 years.
Billy: So I've got some time then.

[The Mondoshawans show up literally a minute later.]

Comment Nothing new (Score 1) 45

Asimov's “The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline” (1948).

In it, he invented a fictional chemical — thiotimoline — that dissolves before it touches water. He wrote it in the form of a serious scientific paper, with footnotes, jargon, and references, but the subject was pure nonsense.

Because the style was so convincing, some people at the time wondered if it was real. Asimov himself later joked that librarians and scientists would get requests for the “thiotimoline article” from puzzled readers who thought it was an actual research paper. He even followed up with sequels in the same pseudo-academic style.

Comment Re:Growing body of evidence of damage to humans (Score 0) 15

> Isn't capitalism great?

Capitalism doesn't let you buy laws, that's Corporatism, a subset of Fascism, which is in turn a subset of Socialism.

A proper Capitalist systems speaks to economics, not poltiics.

Reconstruction US, Post-Mao China, Post-Soviet Russia all embraced capitalist economics to lift the vast majority of their population out of abject poverty.

Societies which did the opposite mostly killed their middle class ans then half the population starved to death.

Comment Aspects (Score 1) 39

Having lived through the Dot-Bomb it's basically the same.

You're not going to get a valuation bubble without a hype bubble. And nobody is buying companies for that much who have zero infrastructure. And the stock price is what they use to buy the infrastructure.

These are inextricably linked, not separate phenomena.

This is what Austrian Economists call the 'malinvestment' part of the business cycle. It's caused by artificially cheap money (not set by a market) and will unavoidably be cleared.

Our Orwell is so strong the eggheads artificially setting the price of money call themselves "The Open Market Committee". Because an open market in lending rates is de facto prohibited.

Comment Re:Why people voted for Trump (Score 1) 233

It still seems unbelievable to me that among 300+ millions, ...

Not to worry, all those people apparently died of drug overdoses last year: Trump Claims 300 Million People Died of Drug Overdoses Last Year. -- out of a U.S. population of 340 million, btw. For the record, "there were only 62.4 million deaths globally in 2024" from *all* causes.

Google: trump 300 million died drugs

Comment Re: Why people voted for Trump (Score 1) 233

The way I see it, Republicans try to minimize the average unhappiness, while Democrats try to minimize the maximum unhappiness. So Republicans focus on majorities and Democrats focus on minorities as a result. To those who only care about themselves, the Democrat approach looks insane. To those who care about the collective good, the Republican approach looks cruel and insensitive.

Noting that individuals eventually die off while the collective lives on. I know Marie Antoinette didn't actually say this, but "Let them eat cake" didn't turn out so well for the actual few with cake when the hungry masses showed up. Caring about everyone includes you and yours...

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